Work slip holder for teacher&#39;s use in classrooms



E. E. YEAGER 3,283,760

WORK SLIP HOLDER FOR TEACHERS USE IN CLASSROOMS Nov. 8, 1966 Original Filed March 14, 1960 INVENT OR.

United States Patent 3,283,760 WORK SLIP HOLDER FOR TEACIHZRS USE IN CLASSROOMS Ella E. Yeager, 4425 N. 19th St., Phoenix, Ariz. Continuation of application Ser. No. 14,651, Mar. 14, 1960. This application Mar. 3, 1964, Ser. No. 351,271 2 Claims. (Cl. 1298) This application is a continuation of my application Serial No. 14,651 filed March 14, 1960.

This invention concerns a work sheet holder to be used by classroom teachers as a reminder and outline of the various subjects to be taught during any given period.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a holder having a large flat base and a series of clips to hold punched paper slips on which is written or printed certain work routines.

These paper slips are releasably held by the clips so that they may be easily removed and replaced in any sequence desired with a minimum of effort.

The paper slips have written matter concerning various subjects to be taught during a given school day or period, but are removably held so that they may be varied in their relative positions according to changes in programs, if desired.

The fiat base of the holder is adapted to rest on the top of the desk or table near the front of the schoolroom and within easy reach of the teacher. The holding clips are arranged in a vertical centrally positioned row on the board and each clip has two vertical tubes or rods on each side of a base. These rods are uniformly spaced and matching holes punched in the ends of the various work sheets. There are pairs of these rods or tubes on each side of center of their bases and they are held in place by inverted U-shaped keepers which have downwardly extending prongs to engage in openings at the tops of each of the right and left pairs of tubes. The keepers may have flat tops with smoothly rounded bends, or may consist of two downwardly depending prongs connected by smoothly rounded arcuate bends.

As herewith illustrated, the central row of clips extends from top to bottom of the baseboard. They are spaced to provide room so that work slips may be easily grasped, either at the ends of the stack of slips or on the sides so that the user may insert a finger between the different rows of stacks.

It is intended that on each clip a stack of slips shall be placed on the pair of vertical rods on the righthand side of the center of the base on the board. The slips constituting this stack are sorted and arranged to constitute reminders for the various parts of a subject which is to be taught each day throughout a semester. Each subject has a stack of reminder slips on a separate clip and this stack is, in each case, placed with the face of the top-most slip directed upwards.

There are as many clips as there are subjects to be taught during the day. All the top slips of all subjects are exposed at all times so that the teacher can refer to the device and observe at once what the subject to be taught is, and of what it consists, and also plan work for the following hours of teaching and/ or study time. The various stacks are arranged on their respective clips in a vertical row, and disposed according to the work periods of each day. Thus, the first stack is for the first period. The next stack below is for the next period and so on for the whole day. The clips with the vertical rods on both sides form a convenient means for holding the various slips in order and permitting them to be turned from the right hand side of the board over the loops of the keepers to the left hand side of the board clip where they will lie flat with their top faces downward. As each subject is taken up and finished the slip concerning that lesson and that period is turned from the right hand side of the board to the left hand side thereof.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that the objects of this invention are to provide a board for holding various stacks of lesson outline slips, each containing the information on subjects to be taken up by the teacher during the course of the year.

Another object is to provide means for holding the slips so that the stacks are arranged vertically according to the hours of the day.

Still another object is to provide means for holding the slips arranged so that, as subjects are completed, they may be easily turned to the left hand side of the board where they will be out of the way and where the written material on their upper faces will not be visible and will thus prevent confusion with the slips that are being used.

Still another object is to provide a board for holding said stacks of study slips in a position so that they may be arranged and rearranged as desired without necesarily disturbing all of the slips.

Still another object is to provide holding clips on a board wherein the slips may be easily moved from the right hand side of the holding board to the left hand side, as desired.

Still another object is to provide holding clips which may be easily opened for the admission of additional slips or the removal of slips which are undesired.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

I attain the foregoing objects by means of the devices, parts and combinations of parts as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIGURE 1 is a plan View of a slip holding board incorporating my improvements;

FIGURE 2 is a bottom edge view thereof;

FIGURE 3 is a side elevational view thereof;

FIGURE 4 is a perspective View of a board holding several stacks of strips which are not in use; and

FIGURE 5 is a view of the details of the upper ends of the clips drawn on an enlarged scale.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts in the several views.

In the drawings, 2 indicates a baseboard which is sufficiently thick to maintain stiffness both transversely and vertically. On the right hand side of a board is a rectangular area 3 which will contain indicia as to the day of the week and/or the subject matter to be taught at various hours during the day, which hours are indicated by various spaces arranged vertically within the area 3.

Within the area to the left of this right hand area 3 there is a vertical row of strip holding clips 4. These are arranged by attachment to a unit clip base 5 so that they occupy approximately the central portion of the indicated left hand area of board 2.

Each clip consists of a pair of right hand vertical tubes 7 and 8, and two left hand vertical tubes 10 and 12. These tubes are arranged in pairs as strip holding tubes. The upper end portions of these tubes are made hollow and are adapted to receive the right hand ends 9 of inverted-U-shaped keepers 11. The left hand legs 14 of these keepers are inserted in the hollow upper portion of the left hand keeper supporting tubes 10 and 12. These left hand tubes are disposed in a vertical row on the left hand side of clip base 5 and are spaced directly across, transversely and horizontally, from the tubes 7 and 8, respectively.

Tubes 7 and 10 are arranged in transverse horizontal alignment, as are tubes 8 and 12. All right hand tubes 7 and 8 are arranged in vertical alignment on the right hand side of base 5, and tubes '10 and 12 are arranged in vertical alignment on the left hand side of base 9.

The keepers 11 have a long leg 14 on the left hand side which extends into the tubes and 12 of each clip unit a considerable distance. The arms 16 of keeper 11 extend into comparatively shallow holes in tubes 7 and 8. The tops of the holes in tubes 7 and 8 are beveled and partially removed to form openings with semi-circular positioning stops 20 which will help position arms 16 as they are rotated from and to register with the holes 21 in the top of tubes 7 and 8.

In use, the stacks of slips bearing indicia indicating various subjects to be taught are placed through prepunched holes 32 in One end of each of the slips over the tubes 7 and 8 of each of the pairs of tubes of the various sections of the holder. These stacks, are in the first instance, secured from a library of stacks held in place by pegs 33 positioned in a stack board 34, as shown in FIGURE 4.

Each of the vertical pairs of tubes, such as 7 and 8, throughout the height of the base 9, will be provided with a stack of slips and at the beginning of the day the topmost slip of each of the stacks will be exposed to view.

As the subjects are reached and completed during each hour work period of the day, the top-most slip of said particular stack is turned over and drawn over the keeper 11 and placed on the left hand side of board 2 to thereby show that that subject has been completed.

During succeeding work periods the same process is repeated. The slips on the next succeeding pair of tubes, such as 7' and 8'. This process is repeated with the various subjects during the various teaching subjects during the day until the bottom stack 35 is reached and finished.

I claim:

1. A school work plan apparatus for use by teachers in laying out subject areas to be covered on a daily basis for each subject taught comprising, in combination, a classroom subject slip holder and a multiple series of separate classroom subject slips, said subject slip holder including a generally rectangular flat baseboard, a clip base positioned on said baseboard dividing same into left and right portions, said clip base extending in longitudinal alignment with the long axis of said baseboard, and a plurality of pairs of clip means carried by said clip base at longitudinally spaced intervals thereon along its longitudinal axis, each of said pair of clips being operated independently of the remaining pairs of clips, said series of classroom subject slips mounted in detachable relationship on each pair of clips in right angled relationship to the long axis of the baseboard, each slip of a series containing at least a portion of intelligence for chronological day to day instruction pertaining to the particular subject matter making up a series, said subject matter slips of each series being movable individually from one side of the board to the other independent of any other series upon the completion of the instruction for the subject matter appearing on the slip, and a rectangular area extending along one side of the baseboard in parallel relationship to the clip :base, said rectangular area receiving a series of intelligence material spaced longitudinally therealong, each intelligence material correlated with a specific subject matter and identifying the particular subject matter being taught.

2. A school work plan apparatus for use by teachers in laying out subject areas to be covered on a daily basis for each subject taught comprising, in combination, a classroom subject slip holder and a multiple series of separate classroom subject slips mounted thereon, said subject slip holder including a generally rectangular flat baseboard, a clip base positioned on said baseboard dividing same into left and right portions, said clip base extending in longitudinal alignment with the long axis of said baseboard, a plurality of pairs of clip means carried by said clip base at longitudinally spaced intervals thereon along its longitudinal axis, each of said clips consisting essentially of a pair of spaced tubes on each side of said base, with each tube of each pair being in transverse alignment with a counterpart tube on the opposite side of said clip base, and transversely extending keepers each consisting essentially of a connecting bar, having legs at each end, adapted to extend into the open top ends of each transversely aligned pair of tubes, each of said pair of clips being operated independently of the remaining pairs of clips, said series of classroom subject slips mounted in detachable relationship on each pair of clips in right angled relationship to the long axis of the baseboard, each slip of a series containing at least a portion of intelligence for chronological day to day instruction pertaining to the particular subject matter making up a series, said subject matter slips of each series being movable individually from one side of the board to the other independent of any other series upon the completion of the instruction for the subject matter appearing on the slip, and a rectangular area extending along one side of the baseboard in parallel relationship to the clip base, said rectangular area receiving a series of intelligence material spaced longitudinally therealong, each intelligence material correlated with a specific subject matter and identifying the particular subject matter being taught.

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BILLY J. WILHITE, Primary Examiner.

JEROME SCHNALL, ROBERT E. PULFREY, WAL- TER A. SCHEEL, Examiners.

C. COUGHENOUR, Assistant Examiner. 

1. A SCHOOL WORK PLAN APPARATUS FOR USE BY TEACHERS IN LAYING OUT SUBJECT AREAS TO BE COVERED ON A DAILY BASIS FOR EACH SUBJECT TAUGHT COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A CLASSROOM SUBJECT SLIP HOLDER AND A MULTIPLE SERIES OF SEPARATE CLASSROOM SUBJECT SLIPS, SAID SUBJECT SLIP HOLDER INCLUDING A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR FLAT BASEBOARD, A CLIP BASE POSITIONED ON SAID BASEBOARD DIVIDING SAME INTO LEFT AND RIGHT PORTIONS, SAID CLIP BASE EXTENDING IN LONGITUDINAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE LONG AXIS OF SAID BASEBOARD, AND A PLURALITY OF PAIRS OF CLIP MEANS CARRIED BY SAID CLIP BASE AT LONGITUDINALLY SPACED INTERVALS THEREON ALONG ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS, EACH OF SAID PAIR OF CLIPS BEING OPERATED INDEPENDENTLY OF THE REMAINING PAIRS OF CLIPS, SAID SERIES OF CLASSROOM SUBJECT SLIPS MOUNTED IN DETACHABLE RELATIONSHIP ON EACH PAIR OF CLIPS IN RIGHT ANGLED RELATIONSHIP TO THE LONG AXIS OF THE BASEBOARD, EACH SLIP OF A SERIES CONTAINING AT LEAST A PORTION OF INTELLIGENCE FOR CHRONOLGICAL DAY TO DAY INSTRUCTION PERTAINING TO THE PARTICULAR SUBJECT MATTER MAKING UP A SERIES, SAID SUBJECT MATTER SLIPS OF EACH SERIES BEING MOVABLE INDIVIDUALLY FROM ONE SIDE OF THE BOARD TO THE OTHER INDEPENDENT OF ANY OTHER SERIES UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE INSTRUCTION FOR THE SUBJECT MATTER APPEARING ON THE SLIP, AND A RECTANGULAR AREA EXTENDING ALONG ONE SIDE OF THE BASEBOARD IN PARALLEL RELATIONSHIP TO THE CLIP BASE, SAID RECTANGULAR AREA RECEIVING A SERIES OF INTELLIGENCE MATERIAL SPACED LONGITUDINALLY THEREALONG, EACH INTELLIGENCE MATERIAL CORRELATED WITH A SPECIFIC SUBJECT MATTER AND IDENTIFYING THE PARTICULAR SUBJECT MATTER BEING TAUGHT. 